The wyandotte is a fairly large bird but compact and rounded. It is usually of medium length but very wide, carrying that width across the back and into the tail. It is clean legged and fairly close feathered, and has a broad skull with a rose comb

A nine-month-old sultan chicken. The breed has a great deal of decorative plumage, including a large, puffy crest, beard, long tail and profuse foot feathering. Its small, V-shaped comb is almost entirely hidden under feathering. The sultan is also one of a minority of breeds to have five toes on each foot